On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:04 -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: > MBE). The other caveat is to have solid backup power, because XFS's > aggressive caching might lead to random data corruption if your machine > suddenly loses power. All file systems will give you data corruption if your machine suddenly loses power (with standard PC's). With standard params ext3 will be a little better because it keeps puts a copy of the data being written in the journal before it writes it in the correct location, also as a security matter XFS will zero the bytes in a partially written blocks on fsck, while ext3 just leaves the corrupted block in place, which is often useful if the data is a text file.
AFAIK Except for ReiserFS, all other Linux filesystems will only corrupt files open for writing, so this isn't entirely random... However, files can include directories... For the video store, XFS and JFS are really the only reasonable options. For your main Linux partitions ext3 and ReiserFS can have some real advantages. -- Daniel _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
